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"The most valuable feature is the model-generation. With a nice dataset, Darwin gives you a nice model. That's a really nice feature because, if we're doing that ourselves, it's trial and error; we change the parameters a little and try again. We save time by just giving the dataset to Darwin and letting Darwin generate a model. We find the models it generates are good; better than we can generate.""The key feature is the automated model-building. It has a good UI that will let people who aren't data scientists get in there and upload datasets and actually start building models, with very little training. They don't need to have any understanding of data science.""I find it quite simple to use. Once you are trained on the model, you can use it anyway you want.""I liked the data checking feature where it looks at your data and sees how viable it is for use. That's a really cool feature. Automatic assessment of the quality of datasets, to me, seems very valuable.""The solution helps with the automatic assessment of the quality of datasets, such as missing data points or incorrect data types.""The thing that I find most valuable is the ability to clean the data.""In terms of streamlining a lot of the low-level data science work, it does a few things there.""Darwin has increased efficiency and productivity for our company. With our risk management team, there were models that took them more than three days to process each, only to see the outcome. Now, it takes minutes for Darwin to process the current model. So, we can have it in minutes. We don't have to wait three days for all the models to be tested, then make a decision."

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"The APIs are valuable.""In MLOps, when we are designing the data pipeline, the designing of the data pipeline is easy in Google Cloud.""All of the features of this product are quite good.""The infrastructure is highly reliable and efficient, contributing to a positive experience.""Google Cloud Datalab is very customizable."

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"There are issues around the ethics of artificial intelligence and machine learning. You need to have a lot of transparency regarding what is going on under the hood in order to trust it. Because so much is done under the hood of Darwin, it is hard to trust how it gets the answers it gets.""The analyze function takes a lot of time.""Our main data repository is on AWS. The trouble we are having is that we have to download the data from our repository to bring it into Darwin. It would be great if there was an API to connect our repository to Darwin.""Something they are working on, which is great, is to have an API that can access data directly from the source. Currently, we have to create a specific dataset for each model.""An area where Darwin might be a little weak is its automatic assessment of the quality of datasets. The first results it produces in this area are good, but in our experience, we have found that extra analysis is needed to produce an extra-clean set of data.""The challenge is very big toward making models operational or to industrialize them. E.g., what we want to do is to make unique credit models for each customer. So, we are preparing the types of customers who we can try new credit models on Darwin. But, I see this still very challenging to be able to get the data sets so Darwin can work. At this point, we are working it to get the data sets ready for Darwin.""The Read Me's and the tutorials need to be greatly improved to get customers to understand how things work. It might be helpful to have some sample data sets for people to play around with, as well as some tutorial videos. It was very hard to find information on this in the time crunch that we had, to see how it worked and then make it work, while interfacing with folks at SparkCognition.""There's always room for improvement in the UI and continuing to evolve it to do everything that the rest of AI can do."

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"We have also encountered challenges during our transition period in terms of data control and segmentation. The management of each channel and data structure as it has its own unique characteristics requires very detailed and precise control. The allocation should be appropriate and the complexity increases due to the different time zones and geographic locations of our clients. The process usually involves migrating the existing database sets to gcp and ensure data integrity is maintained. This is the only challenge that we faced while navigating the integers of the solution and honestly it was an interesting and unique experience.""There is room for improvement in the graphical user interface. So that the initial user would use it properly, that would be a good option.""Connectivity challenges for end-users, particularly when loading data, environments, and libraries, need to be addressed for an enhanced user experience.""The product must be made more user-friendly.""The interface should be more user-friendly."

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  • "The license cost is not cheap, especially not for markets like Mexico. But sometimes, you do have to make these leap of faith for some tools to see if they can get you the disruption that you are aiming for. The investment has paid off for us very well."
  • "In just six months, we calculated six million pesos that we have prevented in revenue from going away with another customer because of this solution. Thanks to Darwin, we didn't lose those six million pesos."
  • "As far as I understand, my company is not paying anything to use the product."
  • "I believe our cost is $1,000 per month."
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  • "It is affordable for us because we have a limited number of users."
  • "The pricing is quite reasonable, and I would give it a rating of four out of ten."
  • "The product is cheap."
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    Overview

    SparkCognition builds leading artificial intelligence solutions to advance the most important interests of society. We help customers analyze complex data, empower decision making, and transform human and industrial productivity with award-winning machine learning technology and expert teams focused on defense, IIoT, and finance.

    Cloud Datalab is a powerful interactive tool created to explore, analyze, transform and visualize data and build machine learning models on Google Cloud Platform. It runs on Google Compute Engine and connects to multiple cloud services easily so you can focus on your data science tasks.

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    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government11%
    Real Estate/Law Firm11%
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    Financial Services Firm16%
    Educational Organization12%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Small Business75%
    Large Enterprise25%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Midsize Enterprise10%
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    Darwin is ranked 27th in Data Science Platforms while Google Cloud Datalab is ranked 13th in Data Science Platforms with 5 reviews. Darwin is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud Datalab is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Darwin writes "Empowers SMEs to build solutions and interface them with the existing business systems, products and workflows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud Datalab writes "Easy to setup, stable and easy to design data pipelines". Darwin is most compared with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Databricks and IBM Watson Studio, whereas Google Cloud Datalab is most compared with Databricks, IBM SPSS Statistics, Cloudera Data Science Workbench, Domino Data Science Platform and IBM SPSS Modeler.

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